Overall pocket



jjul@ 13, i929- E. l. KRUMPELBECK OVERALL POCKET Filed Dec. 16. 1924Patented .lune 18, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD I. KRUMPELBECK, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE GLOBE OVER-ALL COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION 0F OHIO.

OVERALL POCKET.

Application filed December 16, 1924. Serial No. 756,311.

This invention relates to overall-pockets and, more particularly, tothose adapted for special use in holding a measuring-rule in convenientposition on the outer face of the trousers or other desired garment, andthe principal object of the invention herein is to provide in additionto said measuring-v rule receptacle or pocket an adjunct orimmediately-coupled pocket that forms a substantial and helpful partthereof in order to hold or contain, or to easily accommodate, one ormore additional useful articles, such as pencils, screw-drivers,markingehalk, twine and the like that are common for the workman andwithout interfering in the least with the presence of the saidmeasuring-rule, or, for that matter, any of the articles in the combinedpockets, or doublecompartment pocket, interfering materially with eachother in either holding or removing them, or inserting them, as desired.

The composition or make-up of the duplex7 pocket by using but two piecesof goods and thus creating such aA form of pocket, by the complete ruleand adjunct sections or pocket content-elements herein, will be fullyand clearly described hereinafter in connection with the accompanyingsheet of drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a fragment of a piece oftextile overall-fabric on which is stitched my duplex pocket herein;Fig. 2, a plan view or diagram of the piece of goods forming therule-section of my duplex or composite pocket; Fig. 3, a plan view ordiagram of the piece of goods forming the adjunct part of my duplea7pocket, auch piece being used in super-posed position upon the lowerportion of the said rule-piece in the finished duplex pocket seen inFig. 1; Fig. 4, a vertical section taken on the dotted-line 4, 4, ofFig. 1 showing very minutely the inanner in which the parts orsectional-elements of the duplex pocket are assembled and attached intheir respective places for independent, as well as combined use; andFig. 5, a horizontal section taken on the dottedline 5, 5, of Fig. 1,showing very clearly how the rule-piece and the adjunct-piece of the twosectional-elements of the duplex pocket herein arel assembled upon andduly stitched to the goods of the garment.

A indicates a fragmentary portion of the garment goods or fabric uponwhich my cduplex pocket herein is placed and attached for convenient useof the workman wearing said garment.

6 indicates the upper or main sectionalelement of my composite pocket,and 7 the lower or adjunct sectional-element of the said duplex pocket.These two sectionalelements are cut out in the respective outlines shownin Figs. 2 and 3, and, in assembling them for attachment to the outerface of the garment, the upper right-corner 8 of the said main or ruleelement 6 is folded inwardly on the oblique-line 9, as best seen in Fig.2, and the upper edge 10 of said adjunct-element 7 is folded inwardly onthe horizontal dotted-line 11, as best seen in Fig. Both of these foldsare then immediately afterward stitched or hemmed at 9L and 10a,respectively, in place prior to the final easy-attaching of the said twosectionalelements in their next union or entirety to the outer face ofthe garment, the upper or main part of the adjunct-element 7 being laidor lapped upon the lower part yof the main part of the main or ruleelement 6, with the eXtreme lower edge of the latter terminatingr ashort distance above the bottom of the said adjunct-element 7, as shownat 12 in Fig, 4 and by a dotted-line 12 in Fig. 1. The stitching alongthe vertical side-edges 13 and 14 and the horizontal top and bottomedges 15 and 16, respectively, is then effected to securely attach thenow combined sectional-elements in using place or position on the outerface of the garment, convenient for the workman in holding and handlinghis tools or articles of multiple use contained in the duplex pocketthat has preferably but one bottom, as shown at 17 in both Figs. 1 and4, that is common alike to the rule and adjunct elements thereof. Thecurtailed lower edge 12 of the rule-element 6 saves goods and anyunnecessary thickening of the lower part of the duplex pocket.

In use, the duplex pocket herein is laid at a slight angle to theperpendicular, as shown in Fig. 1, and as customary in arrangingrule-pockets on the outer face of overall trousers, and the rule-elementis open at its side, as shown at 18 in Fig. 1, while the adjunct-elementis open at its upper edge or top, as seen at 19 in said Fig. 1 and,also, in Fig. 4. The eXtreme horizontal upper edge 15 of the saidrule-element is closed so as to form a cap to that pocket, and

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thereby prevent rising of the objects or their removal except throughthe vertically-i slanting side-opening 18.

lt will be readily seen that my duplex pocket is at once very simple,very easily and cheaply made, either out of whole or scrap fabric, asdesired, and extremely easy to apply to a new or to an old garmentalready in use, or the adjunct-element itseli'l taken and applied to theordinary form of ruleelement that would already be on the garment butwith its lower edge hemmed and stitched in secured-place on the garmentto form a separate bottom tor the rule and another separate bottom forthe additional articles of use for the workman. Uf course, therule-element, it desired and otherwise expedient, could be continued ondown into the lower hem of the adjunct-element and thus provide apartition, as it were, between the two elements clear down to the bottomof the composite pocket.

I claimt l. A composite or' duplex pocket for overalls comprising a mainsectional element having a closed horizontal upper end and an outsideadjunct sectional element partly superposed or laid upon the lower partof said main sectional element and thence extending downwardly beyondthe lower edge of the said main sectional element whereby the said twooverlapping :sectional elements are set and attached in assembled-placeon the outer face of the garment and a single bottom is provided that isused in common by bot-h of said sectional elements 'herein and lwith anaccess or inlet side-opening to the main sectional element and, also,with an independentaccess upper-opening to the said adjunct sectionalelement, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination with a garment, ot a pocket comprising two pocketmembers secured to the garment in partial superposed relation with theouter of the two pocket members opening at its top and constituting anextension for and the bottom oit' the inner pocket and the inner of thetwo pockets being closed at its top and opening at its side above theouter pocket.

3. The combination with a garment, ot a compound pocket comprising` apocket memer secured to the garment at its top, one vertical edge andpart ot' its other vertical edge thereby leaving a pocket opening at theupper portion of one vertical edge and a second pocket member arrangedover said first pocket and with its upper edge below the pocket openingof said first pocket and extending below the lower edgel ot said iirstpocket and constituting an extension and a bottom for said first pocket.

4. The `combination with a garment, of a composite pocket comprising apocket member closed at its top and secured to the garment to provide aside pocket opening and an unattached bottom edge and a second pocketmember overlapping the lower open end of said tir'st pocket member andsecured to the garment at its sides and bottom to provide a top pocketopening and to form a bottom for said first pocket member.

EDWARD I. KRUMPELBECK.

